GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal. percent absolute reduction in Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, including seller shipping and fulfillment. Back in 2019, Etsy launched its first initiative focused on reducing the carbon emissions of its marketplace by introducing carbon offset shipping.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell." "To Cecilia Keating. To achieve 1.5

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GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2020

Semiconductor firm Applied Materials puts supply chain at center of new commitments. We are going to hold our supply chain to the same standards that we hold ourselves in the areas of environmental impact, labor standards, and diversity and inclusion. Sponsored Article. Heather Clancy. Tue, 07/28/2020 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains. With this in mind, the remaining years of this decade will be defined by tackling value chain emissions. So, the conversation that is happening now is — how can we more equitably share the margin as it moves through the value chain.". Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . Air shipping, a growing sector, is the most carbon-intensive way to ship a product. Supply Chain. Sponsored Article. Enter air cargo. Transportation & Mobility.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Freight accounts for nearly 8%, but when combined with warehousing operations, grows to 11%, according to the MIT Supply Chains Initiative. Within the supply chain ecosystem, freight forwarders will increasingly play a pivotal role in driving sustainability, digitalization, and resilience across the industry.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. are shipped by trucks, but a small and rapidly growing segment of goods are shipped by planes. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last couple of years, we have seen significant increases in those frictions — from the grounding of a tanker in the Suez Canal to the disruption of global supply chains to increasing tensions between major trading partners. Digitization can also bolster trust and confidence in the supply chain.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

This article is part of our Paradigm Shift series, produced by nonprofit PYXERA Global, on the diverse solutions driving the transition to a circular economy. As a vertically integrated business at Lush, we’re in a unique position to embed our values and zero-waste philosophy throughout our value chain. Supply Chain.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Nearly all – 90% – of global trade is seaborne, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), underscoring the significant environmental impact of ports and shipping. Johansen underscores the urgency of decarbonizing maritime port operations due to the significant environmental impact of shipping.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 21, 2023

Some of these greenhouse gases are produced from healthcare facilities; others are the result of the industry’s supply chain of goods and services. We spend a great deal of time thinking about how we can structure our supply chain to support growth and environmental sustainability,” O'Connor says.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Shipped the traditional way, the fruit was arriving with very low pressure — indicating a riper fruit, meaning the retailer had to sell the fruit quickly. The extensions have allowed both companies to ship to farther away destinations such as the East Coast, and allowing some operations to think about shipping to Europe and Asia.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

Supply Chain. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Companies in particularly difficult industries to decarbonize — such as airlines — have shown increased interest in investing in carbon capture technologies. . Transportation & Mobility.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

Canceled orders, excess stock, disrupted supply chains: The pandemic has laid bare some fundamental challenges with the way our clothes are designed, ordered, manufactured and sold — or landfilled, incinerated or sold on secondary markets. This article is adapted from GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, Circular Weekly, running Fridays.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Big business needs to look at its entire supply chain and be transparent in how it tells us what it’s valuing, McCarthy said, so consumers can make choices accordingly. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Business community role. Policy & Politics.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce. Emmanuel also shared a hiccup from LimeLoop’s first fleet of 500 shipping packages, which had a solid plastic envelope on the front of it to put the label in. Sponsored Article.

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3BL Media

JULY 10, 2023

Originally published on TriplePundit For many people, when they think about shipping, what might come to mind is taking a package to the post office or receiving something from Amazon. These originate in Grand Island, Nebraska, and on one of their supply routes, they have to make their way to Ruse in Bulgaria. For example, the U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

23, LKAB announced that it intends to integrate forward in the steel supply chain and start producing "sponge iron" as a value-added product from its current pellet product, using the HYBRIT process. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

GHG emission data also helps business monitor the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and it helps investors understand broadly how the systemic risk across their portfolio is distributed among exposure to emitters (Scope 1 emissions), energy users (Scope 2) and companies with significant supply chain or use-phase impacts (Scope 3).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While I understand the complexity of these supply chains and how difficult it will be to fully transition to a more sustainable food system, we are losing critical time in endless debates that are not focusing on action. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From providing a buffer for supply chain shocks and price volatility that hit early during the pandemic while making sure consumers eat nutritious food, alternative proteins could make an impact. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Pull Quote.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

An estimated 15 million used clothing items are shipped to Ghana each week from around the world and many end up in the country’s landfills. Sharing data on the volume, locations and compositions of waste generated in the supply chain and collected post-consumption would help evaluate the full potential of textile recycling.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Of course, moving to renewable energy wherever possible and reducing emissions across cars, shipping and aerospace are important initiatives. The World Economic Forum analyzed 163 industry sectors and their supply chains and found over half of the world’s GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The solid waste industry accounts for 5% of global greenhouse emissions, which, as Franklin-Wallis notes is more than the shipping and aviation industries combined. The supply chain that takes apart our stuff is sometimes just as complicated as the ones making them in the first place,” he said.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

COVID-19’s impact on the North American supply chain, hopefully, has heightened everyone’s appreciation that while food does grow on trees, a truck and driver probably has to get it to you. Occasionally "shipping and handling" are itemized, but this is probably only the last leg of the delivery. Sponsored Article.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 25, 2022

In Stephenville, Trudeau called the bilateral commitment to build a trans-Atlantic hydrogen supply chain by 2030 a historic moment, CBC reports. “We This article is republished from The Energy Mix. Read the original article. We must look to resources like hydrogen which can and will be clean and renewable.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

In food, for instance, business models and distribution methods were reshaped in a matter of weeks, as supply chains flexed to keep groceries in stock and farmers struggled to offload overripe crops. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Circularity 20.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 5, 2024

Concerned about this concentration, Western countries are actively seeking ways to diversify their supply chains and reduce their dependence on Beijing. Emerging recycling technologies offer a sustainable way to shore up the supplies the world needs and reduce pressure to expand mining. million motors for EVs.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

Connecting demand – supply chain – and delivery is the first step, but evolving a great customer experience takes it a step further and puts sustainability front and center. For example, when customers visit Trilogy Fashion’s website, they can view the carbon emissions associated with the production of each article of clothing.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

For more than two decades, FedEx has proactively sourced products and services from small, minority- and women- owned Businesses across our supply chain. For more than two decades, FedEx has proactively sourced products and services from small, minority- and women- owned Businesses across our supply chain.

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3BL Media

JUNE 5, 2024

A global challenge, a regional response As the world celebrates World Ocean Day 2024, Indonesia takes center stage for its pioneering efforts towards sustainable shipping. Within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region heavily reliant on maritime trade, the need for sustainable shipping practices is particularly acute.

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Internet is littered with articles about Industry 4.0. Such articles often leave out critical details, such as what is actually needed from the network. I recently learnt that manufacturing supply chains are modeled using algebraic solver techniques and evaluated using statistics. 2) Manufacturing logistics.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Overall, Anheuser-Busch has a goal to slash carbon emissions by a quarter across its entire supply chain by 2025. The OEMs haven't been producing the vehicles that these large fleets want and need, so the biggest companies are diving into the supply chain to help create their own. Shipping & Logistics. Courtesy of.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Hydrogen is already being used in fuel cells for stationary power supply without the noise and emissions of conventional generators, and hydrogen fuel cells are expanding throughout the mobility market to eliminate airborne pollutants from ships, aircraft and locomotives as well as cars and trucks. Next steps for electrolysis.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Healthy soil is critical for environmental sustainability, food security and the agricultural economy — even large food companies are starting to fold soil health efforts into their sustainability programs as they understand the impact it has on creating a viable, cost-effective supply chain. . Sponsored Article. Health Care.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These businesses have struggled with pandemic-driven logistics and supply chain issues, large fluctuations in supply and demand, and policy shifts — for example, export bans on certain crops — that have upended their business models. Developing Adaptable Supply Chains. and Europe.

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Sphera

MARCH 22, 2022

The shift to green energy production and import provides the opportunity to reduce supply chain uncertainties, lower greenhouse gas emissions and meet Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) requirements, all at the same time. New types of ships and adapted infrastructure are needed for liquid hydrogen transport, however.

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